City: Strijen, in the local dialect
'Strien ', is a town and municipality in the Dutch province
of South Holland. Strijen had 8,924 inhabitants at the beginning
of 2010. It is probably that the name derived from the little
river Striene. The founding act is dated as 992 when the Countess
of Strijen donated various permanent properties (www.strijen.nl).
Other interesting dates: about 1200 the title Lord of Strijen
was adopted; in 1759 there was a terrible fire during which
102 homes were destroyed, there were many casualties during
the Second World War and the flood of 1953 took 44 lives and
many buildings.
